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Dear CIHS Community Members, Happy New Year. I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday and New Year. The first issue of 2015 has 5 articles. The first article is from Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama, CIHS Founder and President, regarding his message to our community in 2015. The second article is about our Holiday Gathering/Open House on Friday, January 16 from 5:30.pm-7:30 pm. It is a great opportunity for prospective students and anyone who is curious about CIHS to experience the CIHS community. Everyone is welcome to attend, but it is a potluck so please RSVP to Tamiko at admin@cihs.edu In the third article, Dr. Hope Umansky and Dr. Thomas Brophy announce the details of CIHS' first Subtle Energy Research Talks - SER*Talks, Student Research Symposium, Saturday, June 20, 2015. This is a formal call for oral and poster presentations. Please see the details below as there are very specific instructions to follow. The fourth article details CIHS' annual yoga workshop, facilitated by Mr. Takeshima and Paul & Suzee Grilley. It will be held on campus the weekend of April 18 & 19, 2015. The fee schedule is finalized, so please see the announcement below or visit our website. The workshop outline is below for review. You can register for academic credits for this workshop, and it is open to all community members as well. It is now open to online registration, so please go to our website. The yoga workshop fills up quickly so be sure to register promptly. Lastly, CIHS core faculty, Dr. Sharon Mijares, shares her experience about leading a leadership workshop to empower Ugandan women (including pictures). We are so proud of the work Dr. Mijares is doing to empower women globally. We are so proud to have her as CIHS faculty. CIHS' Winter quarter began this week. CIHS offers unique courses and graduate programs of study (BA completion, too). Please contact our program director, Dr. Hope Umansky, if you have any questions or are interested in enrolling (hope_umansky@cihs.edu). Join us in building a strong community as we continue to grow together in 2015. Sincerely, |
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New Year's Message from CIHS' President
Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama
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To break and transcend
the shell of your ego,
you must recognize your true nature
that had accumulated from your actions
in previous lifetimes.
Otherwise, we can neither break nor transcend it.
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Annual CIHS Holiday Gathering
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Jan.16.2015 from 5:30pm
The California Institute for Human Science would like to invite you, your family, and friends to the CIHS Annual Holiday Gathering. This year we are going to have a potluck party! Let's have a wonderful time by meeting faculty, classmates, friends, and neighbors. Feel free to bring someone you know who may be interested in our unique graduate school and research center, or you may pass the invitation along to them. Everyone is welcome to our community event. We kindly ask you to RSVP to Tamiko at admin@cihs.edu by Wednesday, January 14, at 2 pm.
Date: Friday, January 16
Time: 5.30 pm. ~ 7.30 pm
Location: California Institute for Human Science
701 Garden View Ct. Encinitas, CA 92024
RSVP: By Wednesday, January 14,
760.634.1771 x101 or admin@cihs.edu
We look forward to seeing you there! Happy New Year.
Sincerely,
CIHS Staff
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Message from the Dean:
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Dear CIHS Community,
Happy New Year CIHS Community! 2015 will be quite an exciting year for CIHS. We will be making a formal announcement about some positive changes for CIHS at the Open House Friday, January 16, at 530 pm. I hope you will come and join us as we celebrate the New Year and the CIHS community. All CIHS community members are welcome to attend. It is a potluck so please kindly RSVP to Tamiko at admin@cihs.edu
We are happy to welcome five new students at the start of Winter quarter 2015. If you see them on campus or virtually, please welcome them to our academic/family community.
Additionally, we are excited to post the formal Call for Papers for CIHS' first student and alumni research symposium 2015. The Subtle Energy Research Symposium, SER*Talks, will be held on campus Saturday, June 20, 2015. This is an important experience in which you can be a part of the dynamic work that goes into creating an academic conference and seeing what other students and alumni are doing with their skills and passions. Please see Dr. Brophy's and my article below with specific instructions to submit proposals for oral or poster presentations. We are excited to share with the larger CIHS community the significant and substantive work CIHS students do at every level. We will be resuming the regular subtle energy science conference in 2016.
If you have any questions about CIHS' program, please do not hesitate to email me or stop by the office. I hope to see you at the Open House.
Sincerely,
Hope Umansky
Hope_Umansky@cihs.edu
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Ajna Chakra Awakening Workshop
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April 18 & 19, 2015
With Takshima, Paul & Suzee Grilley
The primary meaning of ajna is "to know" or "knowledge," and other meanings are "command" and "obey." In the physical body, ajna chakra corresponds to the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland, which controls the whole body. When this chakra is awakened, people are able to be awakened to Karana consciousness. Without awakening of this chakra, it is said that human beings cannot transcend the karmic world. Gautama Buddha awakened and realized into the purusha dimension, where he transcended the karmic world, through attaining superconsciousness, selflessness, and the true nature (self), as a result of awakening of the ajna chakra.
Chakras operate in two directions to karma, like two sides of the same thing; one is to function as a gate to the world in which karma is transcended, but can also be the gates through which we fall back into karma. In order to awaken ajna chakra, we must be able to separate ourselves from our emotion and imagination, and to observe things objectively. When we have awakened our ajna chakra, we will be able to control our emotions and imagination.
Ajna chakra functions intimately with svadhisthana chakra in the lower abdomen, and it is important to create a balance of Ki energy in upper body (ajna) and lower body (svadhisthana). When ajna is active in Ki dimension, the practitioner feels a tingling sensation between the eyebrows. The practitioner is able to see different colors in different dimensions depending upon which dimension in which the ajna chakra is active or awakened. A very deep black color may be seen when this activation takes place at the lower astral dimension, or a pale violet color if activation is occurring at the upper astral dimension, or an extremely clear shining light in the Karana dimension. When ajna chakra awakens, the practitioner is able to free their minds, be enriched in wisdom and love, and live freely to influence others altruistically.
The workshop cost is the following:
$225 Early Registration by 3/28
$250 after 3/29
$180 Student Discount
$150 Individual Session with Takeshima
$30 Meditation Session on April 20 & 21
Please see the workshop schedule from our website or by clicking here.
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Call for Papers or Posters, CIHS' Subtle Energy Research (SER) Conference
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Saturday, June 20, 2015 from 9 am -6 pm
Call for Papers or Posters, CIHS' Subtle Energy Research (SER) Conference: Saturday, June 20, 2015 from 9 am -6 pm (6 pm-730 pm social hour).
Announcing the first CIHS Student Research Conference
-SER*Talks CIHS Student Research Symposium
Saturday, June 20, 2015, CIHS will host the first summer student research conference, "SER-Talks," subtle energies research conference. This year, CIHS is hosting a student research conference instead of the regular subtle energy science conference. CIHS' regular subtle energy research conference will resume in 2016.
This is a formal call for presentations (20 minute talks) and poster presentations (less formal, usually single or bi-fold posters).
This is an exciting opportunity for the students, alumni, and community. SER*Talks will be a one-day dynamic event. The day will focus on CIHS students presenting their research projects or topics of interest. Both current and graduated CIHS students are encouraged to present and participate. All current CIHS students are strongly recommended to submit and present/participate. The day will be launched by Paul J. Mills, PhD, Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and of Psychiatry at UC San Diego, Director of the newly established UC San Diego Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health and CIHS affiliate, and a wrap-up by Thomas Brophy, PhD, CIHS' Integral Sciences Consultant. Hope Umansky, PhD, CIHS Dean of Academic Affairs will be facilitating the event.
The focus is on creating a space of dialogue and inquiry around all aspects of subtle energies research and related studies, with a view toward creating the global reach for these studies that we envision as a primary community of scholar-practitioners. It is our aim to foster meaningful exchange within our community in order to better understand the ways we use subtle energies studies to catalyze effective change. For this purpose subtle energies research is broadly defined to include laboratory research and/or theoretical studies related to the mind-body problem, Integral/integrative studies, consciousness studies, energy or clinical psychology, health and essentially all the conventional and trans-conventional topics covered in CIHS programs. The conference format will be primarily a series of 20-minute talks. Please strive for concise, tightly phrased fast-paced talks. (Hence, our title "SER*Talks" alludes to the format of the well-known "TED-talks".) Those who prefer not to give an oral presentation but want to display substantive work they are doing/have done may submit for a poster presentation, and a section of time at the conference will be dedicated to poster presentations. The poster presentations will be displayed throughout the day in the conference hall and the back classrooms.
At this time, we will begin accepting presentation proposals. The submission deadline for proposals is April 15, 2015. Proposals should be in a single document that is single spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font and include:
- A note whether you are proposing an oral or poster presentation.
- A 200-250 word abstract of your proposed presentation along with a title, your contact information and any institutional affiliation (if additional to CIHS).
- A one-page outline which details the organization of your presentation. Include the specific topics and subtopics you plan to cover as well as any experiential exercises and multimedia elements you plan to include.
- Please include a 100 word or less biography of yourself.
- Please save the document as "yourlastname.firstname.SERproposal.doc"
The conference will be free to all students, presenters, and CIHS faculty, and open to the public for a small admission fee. Accepted presenters/participants, who are current students, will also have the option to register for the event as a 2-unit academic course. To complete it as a 2-unit course, in addition to successfully presenting and attending all presentations, a formal double-spaced scholarly article shall be produced based on the work (min 2,500 words to a 10,000 word max, depending on program degree level). This article will be based on your presentation and the context of the conference and will be due June 30, 2015. Conference abstracts, bios, and completed for-credit papers will be published on a CIHS web-based research forum as well.
We are excited to see the work that you are doing. Many of you already have an established presence of influence and are conducting meaningful work toward interpersonal, spiritual, community, and global change. As you know, we are an inclusive and diverse community, and we are open to seeing your work. If you feel your work is "not big enough" for a talk, then please submit for a poster presentation that can be one board or bi-fold (or however you choose to fill a poster-sized presentation space). This is an exciting opportunity to participate in the academic process of submitting and attending a conference. You can also then put this experience on your CV. For those students or community members who simply want to attend as a participant, this will be a casual day of relevant dynamic research, an "in-view" of CIHS' student work, and camaraderie/networking. There will be food trucks coming for lunch and dinner (including vegetarian/gluten free options). We know our community!
Please kindly direct any questions to Thomas_Brophy@cihs.edu
Please email your proposal to Hope Umansky at Hope_Umansky@cihs.edu and Thomas Brophy at the above address.
Subject line: SER Talk Proposal 2015
The deadline for all submissions is April 15, 2015.
We are excited about this opportunity for the community.
Happy Proposing!
Sincerely,
Dr. Brophy and Dr. Umansky
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Reflections on Applied Practice
from
"CIHS core faculty Dr. Sharon Mijares
on her work with Ugandan Women"
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Sharon Mijares, Ph.D.
 Journeyed to Uganda to participate in a science day for girls and lead a workshop to empower Ugandan women. The focus was on how to get practical needs met. Of course, they all had very real stories of lack and obstruction from husbands, no way to earn a living, etc. My emphasis was on not getting stuck in the story, as well as the importance of gathering regularly in circle to support one another. I talked about creating an internal locus of control. I had processes where they met in groups and then came back to circle to share. Some genuine leadership manifested in the group.
 Later, I also decided there are some simple ways I can help them. For example, they need sewing machines as one way of earning a living. I will send the money for one, and recruit others who would like to do a one-time donation to buy a sewing machine. The women want to know how to make a living. At times I felt overwhelmed as I am not able to do much myself, but then I got this starting idea of sewing machines.
At the closing the women jumped up and started dancing as a way of thanking me. Then I headed for a Safari in Kenya. Meeting the Maasai and being taken to their village was very special. In the one photo I am with Alex, son of Oloboni (the chief of 60 Maasai villages). The journey started in Morocco. I then went on to Egypt before flying to Uganda. Making many connections for future endeavors! 
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Announcing New Speaker Events
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Lunch and Learn
Mission Statement:
To educate, integrate and expand our scope of knowledge in a group setting
Call to Action: Bring your friends, colleagues and patients
Format after the Jan. 29th date:
- 12:00pm
- Hope to introduce CIHS - 5 mins
- Announce Offering jar for refreshments (the idea is that once it grows so too will the goodies)
- Presentation 30 mins
- Q&A 15-20 mins
Jan. 29th = Jessica and Amy -Lymphatic Health, Thermography and Endobiogeny: a powerful assessment of terrain, wellness and disease
Endobiogenic medicine, a systems based philosophy that places the endocrine system as the global manager of growth, physiology and adaptation allows for an evaluation of a person's ways of adapting and tendency toward disease. Thermography is a heat scan imaging system which allows for assessment of inflammation and lymphatic circulation. Dr Chadwick, a physician practicing naturopathic and endobiogenic medicine and Jessica Luibrand of Psy-Tek Labs and an expert in thermography will share background on these two modalities and how they can be used together to observe both wellness and disease patterns through case study and analysis.
April 22nd = Michelle Dexter - Title to be announced by Michelle
July 22nd = Christine Peterson Microbiome for the practitioner and the Lay-Person - Answering what you need to know
Oct. 21st = History & Research - Debunking the myth of Medical Thermal Imaging
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The North Country Holistic Chamber of Commerce
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Article Subheading
The North Country Holistic Chamber of Commerce holds their monthly meetings at CIHS the second Wednesday of every month from 12 pm - 2 pm. CIHS' lead faculty Dr. Michelle Dexter, PsyD, will be speaking this Wednesday, January 14 from 12pm-2pm. The Holistic Chamber has provided CIHS students a significant discount on their membership if they would like to join. This is a great opportunity for networking with other like-minds in the working world and see the many diverse careers available.
Students and graduates, we want to let you know about a special offer we've arranged for you! The Holistic Chamber of Commerce, an international organization with members and chapters all over, gives you a $35 discount on the first year of membership. It's usually $120 plus a $35 processing fee. This waives the extra fee. Why join? Learn more at www.holisticchamberofcommerce.com/cihs. Happy New Year!
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